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Guillermo Del Toro Challenges Critic’s “Offensive, Cruel And Ill-Intentioned” Analysis Of Martin Scorsese’s Films

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Near the beginning of Sean Egan’s recently-published piece in the U.K. publication The Critic, are the following assertions: “new Scorsese films are routinely an hour too long…his directorial talent has never been as great as occasional masterpieces like Goodfellas (1990) tricked us into believing it was.” In the piece, Egan calls Scorsese’s Mean Streets “not just overly episodic but in places actively badly directed.” He says Taxi Driver “lacks momentum or moral.” Raging Bull, according to the piece, is doomed by “quite simply across-the-board bad filmmaking.” He calls The Irishman and The Wolf of Wall Street “achingly slow…just begging for the application of a brave editor’s scissors.” The writer praises Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, After Hours, Shutter Island, The Aviator and Goodfellas.

But his affection ends there. After Goodfellas, he contends, “Scorsese has lazily settled on Mafia-Picture Director as a main calling.” That’s somewhat akin to reducing an analysis of John Ford’s career to “he was a director of Westerns.

Egan does not mention The Departed, which won four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director (for Scorsese) and Best Editing (for Scorsese’s longtime — and yes, brave — collaborator, Thelma Schoonmaker).

The article’s assertions and omissions caught the eye of another Oscar-winning director, the generally genial Guillermo del Toro, who offered his own pointed reactions on Twitter this morning. “I very, very seldom post anything contradictory here,” began del Toro, “but- the amount of misconceptions, sloppy innacuracies (sic.) and hostile adjectives not backed by an actual rationale is offensive, cruel and ill-intentioned.” After questioning the article’s intentions — “this article baited them

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